History’s Five Best Body Part Stories

A few years ago, medical historian and surgeon-in-training Suzie Edge was in the operating room preparing to amputate a patient’s leg. She began telling her colleagues just how such an amputation might have gone during the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, when there were no anesthetics or antiseptics, and doctors relied on surgical saws to do their work. With a combination of admiration and mild rebuke, the head of surgery told her, “Suzie, you really need to go and tell these stories somewhere else.”

So she did. Edge began posting short videos recounting gory stories of the body parts of historical figures on . She soon developed a large and adoring following. Many of It was published earlier this year.